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★2015/08/18 01:44

He was having so much fun and like so familiar on the slide with lots of stances sliding down until he got to an accident bumping on to a kid who kept blocking the way down at the exit of the slide..

His parents were no where to be seen! He was a foreigner who doesn’t speak English, which he didn’t seem to care for my warning till the unfortunate accident resulting Little-big-boss got hurt and bleed on the his lips..

I was trying to avoid this and been very careful guarding Little-big-boss and my nephew, making sure nobody was down at the exit again trying to climb up from the slide..

The slide was a curved slide where you can’t see actually if anybody was blocking when you are up the slide.
I warned and made sure the kid was not near there.
I can’t watch 2 ways up and down at the same time.

And there when the accident happened The kid was back at the exit!

I know it was also my responsibility to let this happened!

But I still need to make this statement!

Parents out there, please do look after your children, especially when they are in the pool and watch over them not only for their own safety but also others. And plus, so that they don’t break the rules and disturb other children playing at the same place

My case here,
he is your child, he doesn’t understand English, Malay and Chinese in Malaysia and doesn’t seem to listen to me. Do all these make enough reasons for you to even have to guard and guide them

Other than that, we had fun
This place was quite nice with restaurants surrounding the pool.

★2015/07/31 02:03

Throughout the week, as mentioned on my last post, everyday was a pool day for us..

We are lucky enough that on one of our pool day, we were invited to a very very nice pool
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.The rooftop INFINITY POOL

Isn’t this epic
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What a day to be relaxed on a pool like this

..as if a mother can relax that easily where she was responsible for the children safety!
Little-big-boss and his cousin brother, Yang.
Especially in a pool! haha

My kakkoii baby haha
The view of the city from the pool was marvelous.
City but not in the middle of the busy surroundings or tall sky scraper buildings

I am very glad that Little-big-boss is getting comfortable in the water, in deep water
It’s cool looking at him swimming so freely and cute to see him poking out his head from the water very frequently to get air
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He jumps very confidently..

Though not penetrating into the pool smoothly, but splash flatly onto it Ouch!
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Little-big-boss’ pool friends of the day Cousin sister, Little Clara (together with mommy)

★2015/05/26 01:28

Had a walk around this big hot spring water field located in the center of Kusatsu.
This field is the main source where the hot spring water degree got adjusted before being conducted to every each of the Onsen Inn in Kusatsu
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.We were just the right timing to be able to watch this team dancing @ Nettou Yumomi Dance Contest 熱湯湯もみダンス選手権 in 草津温泉!! The Shyurai dance 襲雷舞!
Very impactful, full of energy, and damn cool!
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.Time for a little noon-nap in our Ryokan, Nushiyu Ryokan ぬ志勇旅館
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. While Little-big-boss was having his nap,
we, Yappi and I went for our st bath in the onsen of the day on the “private family onsen”
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.When we are back, Little-big-boss was up Playing “hai~, cheeeeezu” camera with a bottle-cap opener
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Before dinner, we had our nd bath in the onsen of the day~
with Little-big-boss and grandma along this time in the public open-aired onsen

Little-big-boss followed mommy to the women onsen, so daddy was alone

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A quick bath followed by..

A DINNER-time~!
Our ryokan gorgeous dinner set

The man that only favors in eating the chawan-muchi (Japanese-style steamed egg)

and the fruits that night
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After the king-like cuisine dinner , we went back to our room, had a rest, changed to yukata
and head off to our rd bath in the onsen of the day~
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My little sexy man

The hot spring water in Kusatsu is another wonder of nature!
You can really feel the quality of the hot water here, which are so soft and silky

Though the open-aired onsen was a public onsen, somehow we were always there just by ourselves

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The next morning, we went for our th bath in the onsen
before we had our breakfast at 7:30 am!

The breakfast

The man that favors only the half-boiled egg and some rice that morning

The son-in-law and mom-in-law
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After breakfast,It was time to pack..

2 days after the 2nd round,
still the peak of full blooming
at the same spot, Tamagawa riverside.

This round was planned earlier
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.Lunch-time

O-hanami lunch picnic this round~

A simple packed lunch

I know that I’m repeating,
but this is really a heaven being able to have a life surrounded by these heavenly trees
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And again,we were actually here with friends bigger group.
The “mommies and babies” friends
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.Playtime~

Breeeeaathe in..

Fuuuuuuuuuuu~!
The bubbles

1 company

2 companies

Waaaaaaah~
*looking at the flying bubbles*

The little angels
having the Sakura trees watching over them
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.Some resting and snapping time

Resting Little-big-boss

Resting Little-big-boss and mommy *pee-ka-boo*

Some candid shots taken by my Little-big-boss

Shot 1: The mommy

Shot 2: The mommy

Shot 3: The mommy and friend

Shot 4: The Sakura tree

He is getting so so so much better in taking photos..
The main objects all in frame and clear without much camera shake!
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.Hard to say goodbye

Yes, it was hard to leave the Sakura saying goodbye at the end of the day..

But this little guy even more..

Hard to leave wherever there is a play-time..
(Been asking him to go home, and he still kept playing on this slope leaving us the last to go off..)
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Once he got on the stroller,

★2014/08/21 18:41

Ever since I have my Little-big-boss around, almost everyday we’ll be out having a walk or to nearby parks or tea with nearby mama friends

It’s just easier for me to look after Little-big-boss and without cleaning up and got messed up again the next minute
And of course it’s happier, healthier and much more fun for me and Little-big-boss himself

Yeah, we have to keep connected with the outside world through our sense not just through the screen

Anyway, when we were having our walk, there’s this old little cigarettes’ shop that we would stop by most of the time.

This shop is kinda unique

The uncle from this shop will always place something especially things that attract kids in front of his shop And they keep changing according to seasons and festivals

For example,

A table with some spinning tops
One of the old-time games

Kinda nostalgic to see this and heart warming to know there’s someone is trying to keep the old culture
Little-big-boss had fun with them

Kids play whatever is given, shall we let them explore before they got stick on the screen of some sort

There were colorful rubber balls in a pool of water too
Hold, roll, throw, pick the colors, any ways you wanna play it

At the same time, it was the 7th of July, the Tanabata festival
Uncle, the shop owner prepared some papers and pens there for people to write down their wishes, “tanzaku”

And we wrote down a few

Little-big-boss writing down some wishes too
He had a flu, so I wrote a wish wishing him for fast recovery

The setting for the festival

A wish for everyone May you all be happy always

1歳１０か月１６日1 year 10 months 6 days old

After a month, when I came back from Malaysia, we came by this shop again

As usual, though I didn’t mention it yet, there are always some small animals displayed alongside too.
Fishes , scorpions , snakes, snails, crabs, tortoise, beetles and etc In small aquariums and containers

The uncle here I think he likes kids to expose more to the nature, that he always talk and persuade Little-big-boss to try and touch or hold the little animals (the safe one of course!).
Little-big-boss likes to see from far, but once any of them is near him, he will move back and hide

Since he was afraid of touching any of them, the uncle let him help to feed the tortoise instead

In summer, there was a plant of Mimosa Pudica displayed over there too.
I think some of you may be quite familiar with this in your childhood
In Malay, we called it rumput malu-malu which means bashful grass
and in Japanese we called it Ojigi grass (おじぎ草) which means the bowing grass

And we have a new display this round!
“Rocks with drawings”
Creative and definitely one of an interesting activity for the kids

What even more surprising me was, the Tanabata display a month ago has turned to…